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Spinnaker Is (Still) Not a Build Server: Debunking 8 Common Myths about Spinnaker

Oct 31, 2019
by Stu Posluns

Spinnaker is a thriving open source project backed by, and used by, some of the biggest, most technically advanced companies in the world. However, there are some misconceptions about what Spinnaker can and cannot do, where it is in the open source software lifecycle, and how difficult it is to use. These myths are surprisingly sticky… but we at Armory are here to debunk them. We’ve published a free ebook tackling eight of the most pervasive myths about Spinnaker’s strengths, weaknesses, and adoption that we’ve encountered. Think of it as the DevOps version of Mythbusters.

The myths we bust include:

  • Jenkins (or Helm or AWS CodeDeploy) work just as well
  • Spinnaker is a build server
  • “Our team can develop a better solution internally”
  • Spinnaker is a dead project that people don’t use
  • Spinnaker is not production-ready
  • Spinnaker only does Kubernetes
  • Spinnaker can’t run on-prem
  • Spinnaker is too hard

Armory is committed to ensuring the continued growth and success of Spinnaker as a core part of our mission to help teams ship better software, faster. Download the ebook to learn more about Spinnaker, and reach out to us to talk about how Spinnaker can bring velocity, clarity, and consistency to your code deployments. We’d love to chat!

May 22, 2020
by Armory
Announcing Armory Fleet Weeks
Register and join Armory on Thursday, 5/28 at 10am PST to learn how to get Spinnaker operational in AWS. In two one-hour sessions, you will learn: · How to configure your Spinnaker instance to deploy to AWS · How to prepare AWS by creating roles, permissions, and trust · How to use the Halyard configuration […]
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May 12, 2020
by Armory
Rosalind Benoit has been elected the CD Foundation Outreach Committee Chairperson
Note: This blog was originally featured on the CD Foundation blog. We are excited to announce that Rosalind Benoit has been elected the CD Foundation Outreach Committee Chairperson. Rosalind is Director of Community at Armory, where she works to enable and energize the Spinnaker ecosystem. Rosalind holds an MSIS in Database & Internet Technologies from Northwestern […]
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May 11, 2020
by Fernando Cremer
Integrating Spinnaker with ServiceNow
As the pressure mounts to deliver faster, many organizations must do it with safety and compliance in mind. Spinnaker provides an open platform to help you manage your Application Delivery Process and it makes integrating it with systems of record fairly easy, depending of course on how open the System of Record is. For many […]
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